{"id":1802617,"date":"2023-01-11T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802617"},"modified":"2023-01-11T14:53:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T19:53:18","slug":"george-santos-posts-defiant-message-after-ny-republicans-call-on-him-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-santos-posts-defiant-message-after-ny-republicans-call-on-him-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"George Santos Posts Defiant Message After NY Republicans Call On Him To Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-santos-posts-defiant-message-after-ny-republicans-call-on-him-to-resign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802617&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-ny-republicans-call-on-disgraced-rep-george-santos-to-resign-hes-not-welcome-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Santos<\/a> (R-NY), posted a defiant tweet to Twitter Wednesday following The Nassau County Republican Committee&#8217;s and other elected GOP officials from New York <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-ny-republicans-call-on-disgraced-rep-george-santos-to-resign-hes-not-welcome-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Called<\/a> Santos to immediately quit office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/openly-gay-gop-rep-elect-accused-of-resume-fraud-divorced-woman-two-weeks-before-campaign-launch-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public trust can be broken<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Santos, who beat Robert Zimmerman, Democratic candidate, during the 2022 midterm election, was repeatedly accused of misleading himself on campaign trails.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was elected to serve the people of #NY03 not the party &#038; politicians, I remain committed to doing that and regret to hear that local officials refuse to work with my office to deliver results to keep our community safe and lower the cost of living,\u201d Santos posted online. \u201cI will NOT resign!\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To serve the people of, I was elected. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NY03?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NY03<\/a> It&#8217;s not the party and politicians. However, I am determined to continue doing that. I regret to hear from local officials that they refuse to work alongside my office to deliver results for our community and lower our cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>I will not resign!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Santos (@Santos4Congress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Santos4Congress\/status\/1613234542650982400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Santos also responded to criticisms by telling Adam Kinzinger (R IL), \u201cGo on [CNN] and cry about it,\u201d Kinzinger had told Santos that he was going to \u201cResign now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a> It is a great cause for celebration <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2FNmnc0W6n\">https:\/\/t.co\/2FNmnc0W6n<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ppMghdn0ao\">pic.twitter.com\/ppMghdn0ao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Santos (@Santos4Congress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Santos4Congress\/status\/1613240802766905361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the\u00a0embattled Republican similarly told ABC News reporter Rachel Scott he would not resign.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8Rep. George Santos tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rachelvscott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rachelvscott<\/a> and me he will NOT resign <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vBMvotq3Y0\">pic.twitter.com\/vBMvotq3Y0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lalee Ibssa (@LaleeIbssa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaleeIbssa\/status\/1613218633341145094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-republicans-pass-rules-for-mccarthys-reign-with-one-gop-holdout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy<\/a>, whose reaction to the Santos news was watched closely, told CNN on Wednesday that it\u2019s voters\u2019 decision on whether the freshman Republican stays or goes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKevin McCarthy won\u2019t join NY GOP leaders who are calling on Santos to resign. Says it\u2019s up to the voters,\u201d CNN\u2019s Manu Raju reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has to answer to the voters,\u201d McCarthy reportedly said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Santos were to resign, it would set up a special election in a NY district that could flip to the Democrats,\u201d Raju noted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevin McCarthy won\u2019t join NY GOP leaders who are calling on Santos to resign. Says it\u2019s up to the voters. \u201cHe has to answer to the voters,\u201d he told reporters. If Santos were to resign, it would set up a special election in a NY district that could flip to the Democrats<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manu Raju (@mkraju) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkraju\/status\/1613254103383310336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During a press conference on Wednesday morning, Nassau County GOP Chairman Joseph Cairo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-ny-republicans-call-on-disgraced-rep-george-santos-to-resign-hes-not-welcome-here\">said<\/a> the\u00a0Santos campaign was one of \u201cdeceit, lies, and fabrication,\u201d\u00a0adding that the freshman congressman has \u201cdisgraced the House of Representatives\u201d and is no longer welcome at the Nassau County Republican Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Rep. Anthony D\u2019Esposito, representing New York\u2019s 4th congressional district, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/11\/nyregion\/george-santos-nassau-resign.html\">called<\/a> on Santos to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Further, two New York House Democrats\u00a0filed\u00a0a complaint Tuesday urging the Ethics Committee to open an investigation into Santos allegedly failing to file timely and accurate financial disclosure reports, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3807179-house-democrats-file-hand-deliver-ethics-complaint-to-george-santos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to The Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Santos, who ran as openly gay, has been accused of omitting a past marriage to a woman. The GOP congressman also declared in his campaign biography that he worked at the Wall Street firms Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, but both companies told CNN and The New York Times that they have no record of him working there.<\/p>\n<p>In another unconfirmed aspect of the congressman\u2019s past, Santos said that he founded and ran a charity called \u201cFriends of Pets United.\u201d CNN reported that a search showed that there <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/20\/politics\/nassau-county-republicans-george-santos\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appears<\/a> to be no record of the non-profit organization, according to the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a question concerning Santos involving his claimed Jewish ancestry. The Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/news\/529130\/george-santos-jewish-lie-genealogy-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0last month that the congressman lied when he said that his grandparents fled anti-Jewish persecution during World War II. Instead, a genealogical search showed his mother\u2019s parents were born in Brazil instead of Ukraine or Belgium, as his campaign website asserted, according to The Forward.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dillon Burroughs contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-ny-republicans-call-on-disgraced-rep-george-santos-to-resign-hes-not-welcome-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Republicans Call On \u2018Disgraced\u2019 Rep. George Santos To Resign: \u2018He\u2019s Not Welcome\u00a0Here\u2019<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. George Santos (R-NY) posted a defiant message to Twitter on Wednesday after The Nassau County Republican Committee and other local elected GOP officials from New York called on Santos to immediately resign from office for breaking public trust. Santos, who defeated Democratic candidate Robert Zimmerman during the 2022 midterm elections, has repeatedly been accused &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1784287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6202,10304,5811,5776,5330,3756,4495,12040,6195],"class_list":["post-1802617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-daily","tag-defiant","tag-george","tag-message","tag-posts","tag-republicans","tag-resign","tag-santos","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}